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International Relations, History and Social Sciences New approaches in a complex world. International relations, history and social sciences New approaches in a complex world. International relations, history and social sciences Edited by Barbara Biltsik Alessandro Marengo Nikolett Posta Péter Krisztián Zachar 2014 Pan: 287c Edited by: Barbara Biltsik, Alessandro Marengo, Nikolett Posta, Péter Krisztián Zachar Lector: Adrienn Johanna Fehér kodolanyi_logo_3_soros 2014. február 10. 16:18:34 © Published by L’Harmattan Kiadó, 2014 © Authors, Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, 2014 ISBN 978-963-236-851-1 © All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means: electronic, electrostatic, magnetic type, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the copyright holders. CONTenTS I. HisTORY László Tamás Vizi Ninety years of Trianon crisis-management . 11 1. Introduction . 11 2. Opportunities between the world wars . 13 3. The repeated Trianon – Paris, 1947 . 31 4. Problem swept under the carpet: what we don’t speak about, it doesn’t exist! . 32 5. Trianon again in the center of attention . 34 6. Governmental endeavors for the healing of the wounds caused by Trianon, the first attempt of the nation-unification. 35 7. The spiritual Trianon – the unsuccessful referendum in 2004 . 36 8. The third attempt of the nation-unification . 37 9. The creation of the national cohesion . 38 Irén Simándi The feminist movement for women’s suffrage . 41 János Sallai–Ildikó Lőwi The first laws on emigration at the beginning of the 20th century (1903) . 55 II. INTERnaTIOnal RelaTIOns János Simon Who likes who? Friendly and hostile nations in Europe . 69 1. Introduction . 69 2. What kind of opinion we can find about Hungary in the past? . 69 3. What is the international opinion about Hungarians nowadays? . 74 4. Who are the friends and enemies of the Czechs? . 80 5. Who are the friends and enemies of Poland? . 82 6. A short conclusion . 83 Lyubov Shishelina Russian policy towards Central Europe and Hungary . 85 Edit Lőrinczné Bencze Analyzing the enlargement of the European Union: key principles . 91 1. Introduction . 91 2. The enlargement timing . 92 3. The enlargement of the European Union in the respect of integration theories . 94 4. The legal framework for the enlargement . 95 5. Substantive enlargement criteria – conditionality . 99 6. Summary. Challenges and perspectives of EU enlargement in the future . 105 Péter Krisztián Zachar The Danube Chambers of Commerce Association’s activity for recovering from the economic crisis and increasing the competitiveness of enterprises in the Danube Region . 107 1. Introduction: The role of chambers in Central-Europe . 107 2. The formation of the DCCA and its organization . 113 3. The DCCA’s Strategy . 116 4. The DCCA’ activity for recovering from the economic crisis and increasing the competitiveness of enterprises in the Danube Region . 118 5. Summary . 122 András György Kovács . 125 The legal nature of Communications in the EU law . 125 Tamás Sorosy . 131 New elements of NATO’s new strategic concept . 131 1. Basic characteristics of the 1999 strategy, and other important developments . 132 2. Characteristic features of preparing the new strategic concept . 135 3. The principal elements of the new strategic concept and its differences from the earlier concepts . 139 4. Conclusions . 141 Éva Remek The European Union and the Sahel region – focus on the crisis in Mali and the EUTM Mali . 143 1. Mali panorama . 144 2. What really happened in Mali… . 146 3. … and what was the European Union’s response? . 147 4. EUTM in Mali – Mission description . 148 5. Step by step towards stability in Mali . 152 Krisztina Kállai – János Sallai The policing challenges of globalisation . 155 1. The view of globalisation . 155 2. Consequences and recommendations . 159 III. SOcial sciences Pál Koudela Turning points of emigration from Hungary – Understanding the present changes in migration structures . 163 1. Introduction . 163 2. Historical Turning Points . 163 3. The last turning point . 169 4. The Role of Education . 174 5. Conclusions . 178 Zsuzsanna Wirthné Móricz The role of social enterprises and their projects in the implementation of strategic plans . 179 1. Introduction . 179 2. Definition of Social Enterprises . 181 3. High Potential of Social Enterprises . 183 4. Participation in Planning and Implementation of Local Strategies . 185 5. Conclusion . 188 Lajos Darai The clarification of incomplete and misinterpreted social science terms in national relations – The necessity and legitimacy of a monolingual dictionary . 191 1. Basic issue . 191 2. Relevant Hungarian historical concerns: . 192 3. Conceptually hard to manage facts about us . 199 4. Legitimate demands: if we give in, nothing changes . 203 5. Managing the existence of Hungarian national and partner-nation communities . 204 I. History László Tamás Vizi NineTY YeaRS OF TRianON CRisis-managemenT * 1. Introduction Few deny the fact that during the “short” twentieth century1 Hungary has a number of pivotal national trauma; the tragedy of the Treaty of Trianon, signed on 4th June 1920 meant a historical shock for the country, which due to be considered rightly the largest Hungarian national disaster in the 20th century. Because the peace treaty2 legitimized the historical dismemberment of Hungary so that Western Hungary, Upper Hungary, Transcarpathia, Transylvania, the eastern part of the Great Hungarian Plain, Southern Hungary (Bácska, Bánát) and Croatia-Slavonia3 was separated from Hungary. As a result, the forced loss of territory reduced the historical territory of Hungary – not counting Croatia-Slavonia – from 282,870 km2 to 92,963 km2 and the population of the country from persons 18,264,533 to 7,615,117. The successor states of Czechoslovakia: 61 633 km2 area and 3 517 568 people; Romania: 103 093 km2 area and 5 257 467 people; Kingdom of Serbs, Croats * The study was written in and sponsored by the project “Társadalmi konfliktusok – Társadalmi jól-lét és biztonság – Versenyképesség és társadalmi fejlődés” (TÁMOP- 4.2.2.A-11/1/KONV-2012-0069). 1 Eric Hobsbawm began to use the concept in the international historical literature. He was the most famous British historian in the 20th century and his opinion was the “short” 20th century kept from 1914 to 1991. A lot of Hungarian historians feel his conception of their own. For example: PRITZ Pál: Az a „rövid” 20. század. Történetpolitikai tanulmányok. Budapest, Magyar Történelmi Társulat, 2005. Hobsbawm named the “long” 19th century the period from the French revolution (1789) to the beginning of World War I. (1914). 2 TheT reaty of Trianon was valided by the Hungarian National Assembly on July 26 1921. The text of 1921. years XXXIII. article: http://www.1000ev.hu/index.php?a=3&param=7489 (28. September 2013) Some part of Treaty: RAFFAY, Ernő: Trianon titkai. Budapest, Tornado Dannenija, 1990. (Hereinafter referred as: RAFFAY, 1990.) 150-152., 165- 184., ZEIDLER Miklós: Trianon. Budapest, Osiris, 2003. (Hereinafter referred as: ZEIDLER 2003.) 166-297. 3 Borders in this time: SALLAI János: Az államhatárok. Változó Világ 58. Budapest, Press Publica, 2004. 59-81. [ 11 ] László Tamás Vizi and Slovenes4: 20 551 km2 area and 1 509 295 people; Austria: 4 020 km2 area and 291 618 people; Italy5: 21 km2 area and 49 806 people; Poland6: 589 km2 area and 23 662 people were detached. All territorial and population losses suffered was 189,907 km2 and 10,649,416 people. That is the historical territory of Hungary lost 67% and the population of 58.3%. Based on data of the 1910 native census: Czechoslovakia: out of 3 517 568 people 30,3 %, Romania: out of 5 257 467 people 31,6 %, Kingdom of SCS: out of 1 509 295 people 30,3 %, Austria: out of 291 618 people 8,9 %, Italy: out of 49 806 people 13,0 %, Poland: out of 23 662 people 1,0 % identified themselves as Hungarians. In other words, from the 10 649 416 Hungarian citizens who came under foreign rule as a result of the Treaty of Trianon, 3 216 124 people declared themselves as native Hungarians in 1910. Czechoslovakia: 1 066 000 Romania: 1 661 000 Kingdom of SCS: 458 000 Austria: 26 000 Italy: 6 500 Poland: 240 Hungarians were detached.7 This in turn meant that 30.2% of the Hungarian population came under the rule of the successor states. In addition, a very significant part of the detached Hungarian population, with the exception of the Transylvania, along the new borders, lived in relatively same array. Hungary’s new borders were drawn up without any respect of the ethnic principles. The freedom treaty contained besides the territorial and human losses many measures restrictive to the national sovereignty. Without being exhaustive 4 Name of Yugoslavia between 1918 and 1929: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 5 Means Fiume and vicinity of Fiume. The treaty originally declared the city free (Fiume Free State). The city was placed under Italian and the port district of Susak under Serb- Croat-Slovene authority after the Italian-Yugoslav agreement in January 1924. Italy annexed the area on 26th March 1924. TARJÁN Tamás M.: 1924. március 26. Az olasz állam annektálja Fiume városát. Rubicon Online, (29. July 2013.) http://liveweb.archive.org/ web/20130729215724/http://www.rubicon.hu/magyar/oldalak/1924_marcius_26_az_ olasz_allam_annektalja_fiume_varosat/ 6 Szepesség located in the north of Tatra, 589 km2 area. 7 Source of statistical analysis ROMSICS Ignác: A trianoni békeszerződés. Budapest, Osiris, 2001. 229-230.; RAFFAY, 1990. 153-155. [ 12 ] Ninety years of Trianon crisis-management here are just a few of these: number of the country’s armed forces limited in 35 thousands, universal conscription prohibited and weapons production restricted. To supervise these measures a military monitoring Committee was sent to Hungary. And Hungary was committed to reimburse the caused damage of the war in the form of restitution, the amount to be laid down later, and ensure the principle of most favored nation compensation for the victorious power in international trade.
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